Development of a 3‐year‐old child FE head model, continuously scalable from 1.5‐ to 6‐ year‐old

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Giordano, Chiara¹; Kleiven, Svein²

Development of a 3‐year‐old child FE head model, continuously scalable from 1.5‐ to 6‐ year‐old

Proceedings of the 2016 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury

Affiliations

¹Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm, Sweden

²Department of Medical Engineering at Royal Institute of Technology KTH in Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract and keywords

This study summarised efforts in developing a 3‐year‐old FE head model, continuously scalable in the range 1.5‐ to 6‐year‐old. The FE models were transformed into one another using nonlinear scaling driven by control points corresponding to anthropometric dimensions. Procedures to mimic age‐specific structural changes occurring during the paediatric development were implemented by means of transition of elements. The performances of the head models were verified on drop and compressive tests available from the literature. A stable and experimentally well‐correlated family of FE models in the range 1.5‐ to 6‐year‐old was created.

Keywords: child head, child modeling, finite element analysis, morphology, scaling procedure
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